Aerial view of a medieval stone village with a river, stone bridge, and people working. Riders on horses overlook from a cliff.

They came near to a village at one point. Twenty or so stone structures built upon a flat rock bed. With a small stream running through it and a stone bridges flatly shooting across it, as if a stone platform had been made and then thrown over the narrow creek. The water in the creek was no higher than half-a-foot, and the buildings around it were all small in size. There were no farms here, the black soil would have been good for it, but only a few crops grew in small places where the stones had been moved and cleared for plant use. The primary purpose of that small village seemed to be stonework. Several large pits in the ground were present, with rough-planked wooden awnings set over them to keep rain out, and a stone wall running about the circumference. These were stone quarries where the nisos would drag stones out from deep or close within the earth, and masons presently who dwelt there would have them chiseled accordingly and sent out as per any orders. Several stone platforms ran along the farthest edge of the village, in the east (the men were upon the west). With massive stone beams resting upon some, smaller bricks on others, and a wagon with a horse no longer hitched in which a large stone block was sitting. Torren spotted three people. One was a woman with brown apparel carrying a tray as she entered the stone-pit, and two were leather-clad guards dressed in green, who were murmuring to one another and had not noticed the riders on the slight stone slope forty See more